Carrying case for glassware



June I7, 1924. 1,498,197

- F. x. PELEGREN CARRYING CASE FOR GLASSWARE Filed March 15. 1923 EVEFQ Erin/r ZPe/eyrezz Fatented Jane 17, 1924.

warren STATES PATENT FRANK X. IPELEGREN, OF BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON,-ASSIGNOR T LIDSEEN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

1,493.19? owner. I

GUSTAVE CARRYING CASE FOR. GLASSWARE.

Application filed March 15,1923. Serial No. 625,176.

1 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK X. PELEGREN,

a citizen of the United States, andformerly a resident of the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, and

now a resident of Bellingham, lVhatcom County, Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a. Carry ing Case for Glassware; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings,

. and to the numerals of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

eretofore cases have been made for holding a bottle and a number of drinking glasses in convenient shape for carrying. -A disadvantage in these carrying cases is found in the fact that they must be carriedsteadily and right side up to prevent displacement, rattling and possible breaking of the glassware. The glasses used for serving certain beverages are made of very thin material, so that they are very fragile. Also it is common practice to use for such beverages a bottle and a set of glasses that are expensively ornamented so that the breakage must be avoided if possible.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a means whereby such a carrying case will hold the glasses and bottle firmly in place without exerting any excessive pressure on them, whereby the carrying case may be inverted or shaken or otherwise roughly treated without danger of injury to the glassware. I

It is a further object of this invention to devise such an anti-rattling arrangement for a carrier of a shape which has proved popular.

Other and further important objects of the invention will be apparent from the disclosures in the drawings and the accompanying specification.

The invention (in a preferred form) is illustrated on the drawings and hereinafter more fully described. 7

On the drawings: 7

Figure 1 is a top plan view of the case with the cover open. 7

Figure 2 is a vertical section.

As shown on the drawings:

Th case 10 is provided with a hinged cover 11. lVhile these may be of any de sired shape, I have illustrated a case and cover that make a spherical container with a flat bottom. The cover is provided with a handle 12 for convenience in carrying the case and with a lock 13 for securing the cover in closed position. The case contains a plate 14 provided with a central hole to fit 'a bottle 15, and with a circular series of holes to fit tumblers or other glasses 16. Preferably the body of the bottle [is tapering in order that it may be received in the hole even though the several bottles used may vary in size slightly. The glasses 16 are made tapering for the same reason.

Secured to the cover is a platelf This securing is done by providing the plate with a downwardly turned flan e 18 which fits the interior of the cover. The flange may be secured by soldering, spotwelding, riveting, or in any other desired way. Cemented or otherwise secured to the under side of the plate 17 is a sheet of felt 19. In the center the plate 1'? and the felt 19 are cut away to afford a central hole, the edges of which are beveled to fit the shoulder of the bottle 15. On the side farthest from the hinge, this hole is enlarged as shown at 20 to permit the plate to pass the top of the bottle when the cover is moved about its hinge.

about its hinge. During this rotation, the

edge of the enlargement 20 passesthe top of the stopper of the bottle, which is preferably of the ground-glass type. When the cover is closed, the felt 19 comes against the tops of the glasses and presses them firmly into their holes in the plate 1 1-. The yielding character of the felt and the springing or resilient character of the plates 14% and 17 enable small differences in the height of the tops of the glassss to be accommodated. The felt at the beveled edge of the central hole contacts with the shoulder of the bottle, and a similar yielding action permits slight variations in the height of the bottle.

With the cover closed and the felt pressing against the bottle and glasses in this way, the lock 13 is operated to fasten the cover in place. The carrier case may then be transported by means of the handle 12.

and no motionofthe glasses or bottle relathis transportation, the case receives a blow, the ctfs'hionin'gfafcti-on of'tlieltelt" and theresilientcharacter of the platsl?" and 14 will prevent this blow from injurin the glass- Ware. holds the bottle and glasses from falling. The stopper in the bottle Will not fall out When inverted because of the ground-glass joint betWen the stopper and the bottle,

lVhen it is desired to use the glassn arefihe case isunloclged and the coyer 11 tilted back about'its hinge,"dniing which action the en; largeinent QQfin tl ie centralho le enablesfthe cdyer to esca 3e" thetop of thebottlefThe bottle and; glasses inay'then be lifted out, or, if sired; he 9% may be i ted u and the contents poured"into the glasses hile th y main, n, a?" cas i the a ter. way of" usingthe' deyice, the case itself may serve as a t ay f 'i m lein if h g a es to. hps iw o reftq p rtake f. i fbevl'age i I an aware that nu 'nei ousdetails of con; struction j may be Varied through a" wide range Without'departingj fr 1 '1' the pr i n ciple's of this invention, 'ndfI'tjl 1e1"efore do not purpose limiting the patent granted, otherwise tl n necessitated by the prior -art.

I my invent on:

1". In acarrier case, a body, a coverhinged If the case is inverted, idle plate 17- thereto, means in the body for supporting a nuniberof glasssWitl-i tl 'eir'upp'er ends in approximately one plane,"a plate secured in said cover and parallel to said plane when said cover is closed, and; a packing device inounted on said plate for contact With the vopening, and means in the body of said case for positioning a bottle in the center iyith'its top entendingabjoye the plane of the top of the glasses, W th p f i e betl wil p t 'i qt thr gh Sa d, Opening.

"Intestinmny whereof I havehereunto sub; scribed lny na nieinthe-presence of tWO illbi witnesses. i

FRANK X. PELEGREN;

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GLENN Reese, Meelsqnhereby when the cover is closed 

